The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-01-27
DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S
SUNDAY SERMON.
Subject: distribution of Rewards. "

.JSo yoai ltl IuS
that in the Coliseum at Rome, where
prosecutors use to let out the half-starved
hons to eat up Christians, there is now
painted the hgure of a cross. And rejoice
10 know that the upright piece of wood
nailed to transverse piece has become the
symbol not more OF suffering than of VIC
tory. 1t is OF Christ the Conqueror that my
text speaks As a kingly warrior, having
su6dued an empire, might divide the palaces,
and mansions, and cities, and valleys, and
mountains among his officers, So Christ is
going to divide up all the earth, and all the
heavens, among his people, and you and
will have to take our share if we are strong
in faith and strong in our Christian loyalty,
Tor my text declares it: "He shall divide the
spoil with the strong,n
The ca lture of this round planet for Christ
Is not SO much of a job as you might imagine,
when the church takes OF its coat an rolls
up Its sleeves for the work, a., it will. Thare
are sixteen hundred millions of people now
in the world, and four hundred ani fifty mil
hons are Christians. Subtra t four hundred
and fifty millions who are Christians from
the sixteen hundred millions, and there are
eleven hundred and fifty millions left Di-
vide the eleven hundred and fifty millions
who are not Christians by the four hundred
and fifty mi lions who are,Christans and you
will find that we shall have to average less
than three souls each brought by us into the
Kingdom Of God to have the whole world re-
deemed. Certainly with the church rising
up to its full duty no Christian will be willing
to bring less than three souls into the king
dom cf Cot l hope and pray, Almighty
God. that may bring ten thousand know
evangelists who have already brought 80, 900
each for the kingdom OF God. There
are 100000 people whose. one and only
and absorbing business in the world
is to save souls When you take
these things into consideration and that
the Christian will have to average the bring
ing of only three souls each into the Kingdom
of our Lord, all impossibility vanishes from
this omnipoteut crusade. Why, know a
Sabbath-srhool teacher who ha, for many
years been enga Led in training the young,
and she has had different ella ses and they
averaged to class, aud they were all con-
verted, and times 7 are -, as near as
| can calculate. So that she brought her
into the Kingdom of God and had % to
spare. My grandmother prayed her chill
d. en- into the Kingdom of Christ, AMI
her grand hildren, and l hope all her
great grandchildren, Tor God remembers
prayer seventy-five years old as though it
were only a minute old, and so she brought
her three into the Kingdom of God and had
more than one hlndred to spare Besides
that, through the telephone and the tee
graph this whole world wit hin few years
will be brought within compass in ten min
utes. Beside that, omnipotence, omnpresence
and omniSc ence are presiding in this matter
OF the worlds be, termenr, and that takes
the question of the worlds salvation out
of the impossibilties into the possibilities,
and then out of the possibilities into the
probabilities, and then out of the probabii
ties into the Certaiuties. The bidding Of the
Union Pa ific Railroad from ocean to can
was greater undertaking than the girdling
of the earth with the GOSPEL, for the one en-
teri ri,e depended upon the human arm while
I,a ut tnr do 1an1 A m Crbtn
Do really mean all the earth will surren-
der to Christa Yes How about tn unn-
viting portions' VIII Greenland BE- e an
gelized! The possibility is that after few
MOI ed hundred brave lives are dashed ont
among the icebargs thai great refrigerator,
the Polar region, will be given uo to the wal
rus and bear, and that the inhabita IT will
come down by invitation into tole.able cli-
mates, or those climates may soften, and, as
it has been positively demonstrated that the
Arctic region was once blooming garden
and fruitful field, those re- ions may change
climate and again be a blooming garden and
fruitful field. 1t is proved beyond contro-
versy by German and American scientists,
that the Arctic regions were the first portions
of this world inhabtable; the world hot
beyond human endurance, those regions
were of course the first to be COL
enough for human foot and human
lung. 1t was positively proved that the Arc
JlC region WAS u tTOplta III Cliilldue. IIoteSSoi
Hcer, of Zurich, says the remains OF flowers
have been found in the Arctic, showing it
was like Mexico for climate, and it is found
that the Arctic was the mother region from
which all the flowers descended. Professor
Wallace says the remains Of all styles of ami
NAL life are found in the Arctic, including
those animals that can live only in warm
climates. Now, that Arctic region which
has cen demonstrated by flora, and fauna.
and geological argument to have been as full
of vegetation and life as our Florida, may be
turned back to its original bloom and glory,
or it will be shut up as museum OF crystals
for curiosity seekers once In while to visit
But Arctic and Antarctic in some shape will
belong to the Redeemer's realm.
| What about other nnproluctive or repul-
| sive regions All the deser will be irri-
| goted, the waters will be forced up to the
| great American desert between re and the
| Pacific by machinery now known or yet to
be invented, and, as Great Salt Lake City
| has no rain and cluld not raise an apple or a
bushel of wheat in hundred years without
artificial help, but is now through such means
one great garden, so all the unproductive
| parts of ell the continents will be turned into
harvest fields and orcharda A half doze,
DO Lesseps will furnish the world with al
the canals needed, and will change the cours
OF rivers and open new lakes, and the grea
Sahara Desert will b. cat up into farm
with an astounding yield of blshels to tn
| acre. The marsh will be drained of it
| waters and cured of its malaria. | saw tn
other day what was for many years calle
the British Swamp of Ohio, its chief cro
chills and fevers, but now, by the tiles put in
to the ground tn carry of the surplus moistur
transformed into the richest and healthiest o
regions. The God who wastes noth,ny
think means that this world. from nola Il
| pole, has to come to perfection of foliag
and fruitage. For that reason he keeps u
running through srare, though so many fire
are blazing down in its timbers and so man,
mock terrors have threatened to da n it t.
pieces AS soon as the earth is completo
Christ will divide it up am ng the gool
The reason he does not divide it now Is be
cause it is MT done A kinl father will no
divide the apple among his children until tn
apple is ripe. In tultillneut OF the Ne'
Test nament promise: The meek shaLl IN N
herit the earth" and the promise of the OIL
Testament: He shall divide the spoils wit
the strong the worl will be apportioned t
those worthy to possess it.
1t is not so now In this country. capabl
of fholding, feeding clothing, and sheterin
twelve hundred million people, and wher
we have only sixty million inhabitants W
work, and wit their famili.s an aggreya
| ton OF five millions that are on the verge 0
starvation Something wrong, most certain
ly In some way, there W II be new a.
portionment Many of the millionaire eS
tates Will crack to pieces on the dissipaton
of grandchildren, and then -diSs71y o into tn
possession of the masses who now have a
insufficiency.
What, you say, will become of the exper
sive and elaborate buildings now devoted {
debasing nusements: They VII becom
sch )ols. art galleries, museums gymnasinm
and churches. The world is already gettin
disguised with many of these amusement.
and no wonder. What an Importation G
unclean theatrical stuff we have within th
last few years had brought to our shores
And professors of religion patronizipg sue
things! Having sold out to the devil, VIII
don't you deliver the goods and go over {
him publicly, body, mind. and soul, an
withdraw your name from Chrisia
churches. and saw: "Krnw all the world h
these presents that am patron OF unclear
ness and a child Of hellh Sworn to be th
Lords, YOU are perjurers
But at last the tide has turned. and the dt
spisers of purity overdid the Tatter. A fol
eign actress of base morals arrived intendin
to make the tour OF the Safes, but the n
maining deceDcy of our cities rose up an
cancelsd the contracts, and drove her ba
/ from our American stage a woman fit fr
neither continent In the name of Almight
God take these denominations by the throa
| II you think these offenses are to 80 on TO